Works on Water Workshop Series
Saturday, September 6 | 1pm & 2pm
at The Arts Center at Governors Island, Studio A4 (Upper Level)
Free Admission | RSVP Required

90% of NYC’s water comes from rural communities in the Catskills, 150 miles north of the City. The relationship between these seemingly disparate places is brokered by land use regulation, public policy, and miles of infrastructure—but these connections are practically invisible to NYC residents. Participants will create a “human diagram” of NYC’s water supply system, forming the connections between reservoirs, aqueducts and water tunnels with their bodies, and re-inscribing the connections between upstate and urban communities. Props will be provided; be prepared to make some noise!

The workshop is geared towards adults, but kids ages 10 and up are welcome. 

The Works on Water 2025 Triennial is a multi-sited exhibition and series of public art interventions made on, in, and with urban bodies of water, created in response to our global climate crisis. Participate in a series of workshops led by Works on Water Triennial artists, inspired by bodies of water and NYC waterways. The Works on Water 2025 Triennial exhibition will be on view in Upper and Lower Galleries of The Arts Center starting August 28 through October 26, open Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6pm.

Lize Mogel is an interdisciplinary artist and counter-cartographer. She creates maps and mappings that bring the politics of place to the surface. Her site-specific work reflects the complicated, human (and sometimes non-human) experience within a place, and engages people in the myriad potentials of that place. Her current work is focused on water infrastructure and watershed ecosystems; and how natural systems, environmental policy, and social inequities intersect. 

Works on Water is an experimental organization and triennial exhibition dedicated to artworks, performances, conversations, workshops and site-specific experiences that explore diverse artistic investigation of water in the urban environment. We seek to strengthen and nourish the community of artists working on and with bodies of water and to provide a platform to increase awareness of artists and organizations working on and with the waterways.

Made possible with support from the Cultural Development Fund, Invoking the Pause, exhibiting artists, and Works on Water’s partner organizations.